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I'm probably not going to make the deadline, new job appears to eat too much energy atm, that should improve over time, maybe not quick enough to find the needed creativity to put a good character together. Or maybe I can scrap the current concept and revive an old one from memory.

You could probably do something like that in Eberron.

Maybe I'll be done cooking in 3 years. While I'm encountering the main issue of making a PC for Shadowrun, sum to 16 would make this so much easier....only then I'd want even more and still not have enough points.

Sooo...I'm making an adept. As always. But this time because backstory says awakened....although could make a mage, but the same laziness that always makes it an adept from me rears it's ugly head again. But maybe I should have a bona fide attempt at building a mage before I go research ways for an adept to jump from a speedboat and land on the deck of a Panama-Max to do a little shock and awe "You better surrender now"-pose.

My impression is that Big A is a villain with good publicity, although a targeted Horizon smear campaign can change that last part for some time. But informed people (a minority) knows that they are evil.

Big A is never far away. But just because communism involves serfdom for the masses doesn't mean that every regime that deals in serfdom for the masses is communist. Also, in the 2080's every regime deals in serfdom for the masses, just that most of them try to pretend that the masses are perfectly free to go wherever they like (and starve to death).

Bugs Real Name: Lucretia Gambione Street Name: Bugs (as in the Bunny) Metatype: TBD Awakened Status: TBD Need to settle on build and story, been bouncing from adept gunslinger to TM, to trying to do everything at once to maybe doing a mage. Might also go face. Lucretia Gambione does not have many early and clear memories of her father, Don Silvio Gambione, of exploring his cavernous mansion, of his servants, yes, not the man himself who took little interest in her whatsoever. Most of her memories are based around her mother's venomous description of a gray-haired fat pig who discarded one trophy wife after the other the moment the first wrinkle appeared, or pregnancy changed their physique to a slightly less attractive version. Don Silvio's man ensuring that Lucretia was well cared of financially, but nothing for the ex-wife beyond paying the rent on the apartment. Her ever more bitter mother would otherwise likely have spent it all on expensive wine and liquor rather than cheap swill to get drunk on. Growing up, Don Silvio's presence in her life was only felt by all the sandwiches she picked up from the Italian Deli on the ground floor putting it all on her father's tab, or the meals at this or that Italian family restaurant dotted around the district. If Mama wasn't an utter wreck that needed to be fed and tucked into bed, Lucretia probably would have turned utterly insufferable having learned that she could just pick whatever she wanted off the shelves of any store in the neighborhood and stroll out with a haughty look of "Papa will pay". Well, she also wasn't allowed to go pilfer candy and ice cream, or more stuff than she could reasonably need, nor anything expensive enough that she might make a side business of selling it. Or at least not a sizable business, taking as much as she could get away with and selling off some of the excess built character and an entrepreneurial spirit. As was grabbing stuff for her mother, caring for family is a prized value even if Papa couldn't care less about the woman. The one sort-of-family she had contact with was "uncle Vinnie", some cousin of her father's put on the task of making sure the Don's progeny would end up okay, or at least with every chance of ending up okay. First by introducing her to which shops she could get things from, then by taking her to self-defense courses and the shooting range, making a game of it at first, then introduced her to victims of what could happen to young girls in the back alleys to prove why she needed those lessons. Don Silvio likely had mostly forgotten about her, just one of several half-siblings on uncle Vinnie's list to look after, he did not even bother to show at the funeral of his ex-wife, though he did pay for the whole thing. Or maybe Vinnie took care of it. And then Lucretia's magic talents manifested, suddenly he took a very personal interest. The purple hue of his face when her entire pent up teenage rebellion was unleashed in one angry speech would suggest that nobody had ever denied him in his own house since she last had set foot there some dozen years before. Next thing she knew, Vinnie drove her to a girl's boarding school run by catholic nuns, of the old fashioned sort, really, really old fashioned. Instead of mellowing and "coming to her senses", Lucretia ran away and went pirate. Multiple times. The first time she was brought back by the crew she ran with to cash in the bounty of her return from "kidnapping", two more times by other runners before the rumor of the bounty's existence was properly put to rest. By that point, she was on her own until she'd "come to her senses and rejoin the family". Before any such could come to pass, Don Silvio and Uncle Vinnie were purged in Bianca Gambione's rise to power.

I have opened chummer 5-6 times now, fooled around just a little bit, then tossed it all in the bin....

Make a Hobgoblin Rigger. 😏

What year is it? The setting PDF doesn't mention much beyond the 60-ies, methinks. Also, any baseline for what sort of dicepool makes you "good" at something? (As in going beyond it may be overkill and/or going below will see you struggle).

So...will there (possibly) be naval action? And this "find your own jobs, then your buyer" will be a thing? (Or find other people doing jobs, find their buyers, and then get in on the action). Off to hunt for PC picture screaming "play me!" we go.

Primarily running a game here is out of the question since I have an off-site game I can't quite devote the attention to that I really would like. There is always such and such idea of mine cooking, but will have to cancel the existing project first (most likely only when all the players stops or we get through the arc about to be launched and I find myself out of ideas going forward on the other side of it).

Hmm, hmm. Maybe I'll roll up a mage this time around, maybe. Never done that before.

I might have liked multiple choices, since I like 4th best, but 5 is good too, because shadowrun. (Lore was better in 3e and 2e tho) And the others I can't play in.

I think I'l just pull out. Too much stuff left to do, hard to conjure up the will to get it done before the deadline. And I'm starting in a new job in April which likely will eat into the time and energy I otherwise would have to help lift the game off the ground.

I thought there only ever were one way for Iverinan's to be redeemed? The only good Iverinian is a dead Iverinian. ☺️

Now I see it :) Evil twin, eh? The dragon in my avatar can snack on him?

Ugh, getting flu at the wrong time (as if there ever is a right time). Let's see if I can catch up before the deadline. I am not seeing any Flavinia IC interview thread?

So Rodanese laws: We have bombards, you don't, so if you use fireballs, we will hang you as a war criminal. We won't use fireballs also, since it's only fair when we forbid you puny vassals to use them. You are allowed to use bombards, if you had them.

TWF has kinda always been for characters that gets lots of extra damage per hit that doesn't scale with damage multipliers from various charge builds and such. Sneak Attack, Dragonfire Inspiration et al. Or such is my observation. Not sure, even with the BAB boosts and such, a fighter will get the good damage without charging though.

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Vinnie checked in here:

Throw Black Tentacles at a bunch of low-level NPC's and...well, it says stops when they've escaped, so if it keeps choking unconscious victims until spell ends.. My guess would be any spell who could cause "collateral damage" or outright kill any mook that gets caught up in the AoE. Contrast Scorching Ray that you'd presumably save for someone tough enough to probably not die from a few of those to the face.

Flavinia "Would Flavinia Caluto suffice?" Flavinia grins widely. "Most of my friends can't even say Flavinia right, so usually it's just Vinnie. I do have a bunch of other names, too, but it's rather a handful, and I never use any of those." Flavinia found the timing of extricating herself from conversation while there were no line in front of the monkey. "I am quick with knives, know a fair bit of magic, mostly to either confound a foe or make myself and allies fight better, if some specialist is passed out from too much rum, I can probably figure out how to fill in passably well on the fly." With slight dramatic pause for emphasis. "I also can sing opera well enough to perform in front of the Queen, but I imagine this lot prefers bawdier songs for their entertainment".